Joe Biden says US embassy in Israel "should not have been moved" from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by the Trump administration without it being part of a broader Middle East peace deal . "But now that it's done, I won't bring the embassy back to Tel Aviv," said the Democratic candidate for the White House on Wednesday April 29.

"But what I would do ... I would also reopen our consulate in East Jerusalem to dialogue with the Palestinians, and my administration will urge the two sides to take initiatives to keep alive the prospect of a two-state solution" , he confided to some 250 donors, gathered on the Zoom videoconferencing software.

In October 2019, the former vice-president of Barack Obama had declared that he would oppose any action which would close the door to the creation of a Palestinian state:

"We cannot be afraid to tell the truth to our closest friends (...) the two-state solution is the best, if not the only solution to guarantee a peaceful future for the Jewish and democratic state of Israel."

Anger

Donald Trump has stepped up gestures in favor of the Hebrew State, in particular the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017, and the transfer of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City in May 2018, the anniversary of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel.

Reversing decades of the status quo in international diplomacy, the move angered the international community and the Palestinians, who view East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.

In late January 2020, Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, unveiled his peace plan for the Middle East. The project, which grants the Hebrew State a very large number of concessions, was vehemently rejected by the Palestinian authorities and remained unfulfilled.

With AFP

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